Recent reviews by riiya

Only played this for some hours today, have been seeing footage for it for some months now, though.
Really fun! It reminds me of Frozen Synapse but for fighting games, which is a really good thing.
I hope this game is gonna be successful enough to warrant adding more characters to the mix for longevity and to pull in more people.

Also, thanks to being (simultaneous) turn-based it's gonna be no problem fighting your FG-friends from other continents!
My cowboy tho?

Runs like ass and doesn't look much better than default Portal, honestly.
Changing any video settings in the main menu might make the game just display a black screen for you (in which case, launch the game with the parameters -sw -autoconfig).
However, this kind of RTX implementation may be really nice to have in a few GPU-generations when running this kind of thing doesn't trash performance as much as it does now (even with high-end GPUs).

Very fun puzzle game! The concept is really interesting and I had fun playing them!
If you want something to do on the side as you chill for a few day(s), this is a good pick!

Best rhythm platformer I know, this felt amazing to play
10/10

Comfy vibes and skateboarding!
Get this if you like either ー also check out the "The Ramp in 90 Seconds" video on the store page, I think it explains the content better than any review could.

Music is really good, controls feel nice (played on a controller).
Fun game/toy!

Had a lot of fun playing this! First playthrough took me roughly 10 hours (trying some of the DLC content along the way), subsequent playthroughs so far took me just below 30, 20 and 10 minutes respectively.

Compared to Getting Over It, which I think many feel is a game that is "of its kind", Jump King felt like a harder game for me to clear for the first time. While a lot of GOI's difficulty stems from its unintuitive and unforgiving controls, JK in return gives you solid and precise controls, but instead ramps up the difficulty of its level design, requiring you to perform much tighter maneuvers.
If you like these type of games, do give it a try for sure!

If you like being presented with a challenge that has a steep learning curve and virtually no handholding,
but in exchange offers you to feel great for beating such a challenge fully on your own, this game may be for you! If you are bad at learning or solving things without getting helped though, this game may be a bad idea.

Since I don't get angry playing these kind of games it was more of a relaxing adventure with gratification whenever I beat a challenging part,
but there seemingly are a lot of people with anger issues out there who can't deal with this type of thing well.
Get this game depending on whether or not you think you can handle that kind of thing,
or play it in order to find out.

(First playthrough took me around 4-5 hours)

This is the first VR game I've 'actively' played (using the original OculusRift) － as in, haven't played just 'here and there', but 'have put more hours into and finished it'. This may have me biased, since the 'new to VR'-effect likely played a factor in my enjoyment in the game.

That said; while playing the game I quickly realised that this is the most fun singleplayer game I've played in at least the last ten years.
I just now finished the game, and can 'uprank' that to a statement that "I am fairly sure this is one of the most fun, if not the most fun singleplayer experience I've had in my life."

Valve did everything right with the game that I could have hoped for and I really, really hope for a sequel of this, or at least similar games of this quality to come out in the future.

Anything I could think of saying against the game feels incredibly nitpicky.
There were 3, maybe 4 instances where I could look past the game boundaries, due to the map not being enclosed perfectly in some corners. Only one instance was me not 'trying' to see if I could do this, though.
Other than that, on normal(?) difficulty the game felt a bit challenging at first (likely getting used to controls), then became fairly easy. I could have upped the difficulty to hardest, though don't like changing difficulties mid-play. This is on me, though - I wanted to leave the top difficulty alone for a potential replay if I purchase an Index down the line.

tl;dr:
Just like HL1 was at the time,
Just like HL2 was at the time,
HLA / HL3 'probably is the best game ever made' for the time of its release.

Maybe I'm too dumb for this game?

You walk forward and look for random items that change in your surrounding as you come across repeating rooms.
Once you did that five times, the game gives you a password to finish the game.
There's no actual puzzle element to the game as far as I have experienced it.

There's a monster(?) there that appears twice, but there's no real threat to it since it only grabs you once and runs away, the other time it just crawls away as it comes into your view. So there's neither any puzzle element, nor horror, really.
I couldn't make out any story either, sadly.

So it was just me walking forward for 44 minutes from start to finish, picking up some items along the way.
After that I did a "speedrun" for fun, since you can just enter the password at the very beginning to beat the game.
So "any%" the game took me around 40 seconds.

On top of that, I played it maxed at 1440p with a 2080ti, i9-9900KF, 64GB RAM, installed on an SSD.
The game dipped down to 30fps at times, which seems fairly strange.

That said, there's no real reason to play the game.
On the other hand, it should take you under an hour from start to finish.

play third strike
it's a good game